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Just started playing Pillars Of Eternity, the game is good but I find that fantasy setting veeery boring! Even reading those names filled with Y, WH, GH, and the likes seems to my italian ears like hearing someone talking with the mouth full of food.
My questions is: do exists an isometric RPG with a different setting, like cyberpunk, or pirate or modern, anything but that boring so serious fantasy? Or at least something not filled with those stupid names? Give me an hero called simply "George" or a fellow called "Ciccio Formaggio"! :)
I already played the Shadorun series games, Fallout classics, Wasteland 2.
Thanks in advance for the help!
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You can easily find more on Steam with a few other themes like Vikings and Westerns and modern warfare.
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Now with that said, it's a very different setting, very non-sequitur (which has been a trend lately), so you might like it. I played it 15 years ago and it holds up as one of the best stories and writing I've ever seen.
If you're willing to bend a bit with the isometric retirement, Caves of Qud is a far future science fantasy (similar basic setting to Numenera). Its top down ASCII styled, so some imagination is required. The difficulty is on par with a traditional Roguelike, so lots of dying.
On another note. I totally agree with you on the names. Sadly, I think there is no helping the writers naming conventions.
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my personal favourite is "Justin Case". lol
Satellite Reign is sci-fi, but is not exactly RPG it's RPG and RTS I think (it's a cyberpunk game). Hard West could be also but that's turn based game really.
Also recently I played Mutant Year Zero, yeah it's fantasy, well not really it's sci-fi actually, but the thing is that, the story is nothing but boring, great story, with some dark humor. Works well with proton but you have to disable ESYNC or FSYNC. Some say it's similar to Wasteland 2, but this is more a rpg-lite, Wasteland is more like a full blown RPG. This game is turn based, has stealth elements and also map exploration.
I think it's a different style of RPG, since it doesn't try really hard to make sense, I mean the story does make sense at the end, but not in a scientific way since it's a scifi game, some stuff is over the top or illogical. It's really like a fusion of fantasy and sci-fi.
EDIT: didn't read carefully what you were looking the first time.
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I have recently started playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker, and absolutely love it. It's fantasy, though, with dwarves and elves and the like, so if that's a no-go then it's not worth trying out. It has more normal names from what I've seen so far, although not exactly "George" and "New York".
Maybe Disco Elysium could be something up your alley? I've heard it's good, but haven't played it myself.
Thorough coverage here as well, although many are old and/or fantasy:
Top 101 RPGs: https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=11193
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